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Today, New Orleans is celebrating Fat Tuesday, also known as "Mardi Gras" in French. It's the last day before Ash Wednesday and the forty days of Lent, when many observers give up certain indulgences in anticipation of Easter Sunday.

In Metro Detroit, it's Paczki Day. Paczki singular "paczek", go back to the Middle Ages, when people in Poland would clear their homes of lard, sugar, and other decadent ingredients by making fried donuts filled with sweet jams or creams.

Stateside's Razi Jafri spoke to customers lined up outside of the New Palace Bakery in Hamtramck who were waiting patiently to pick up their very own batch of paczki.

Then he headed over to another Hamtramck establishment that offers its own take on paczki with a boozy twist.

Mike Mouyianis is the co-owner of Small's, a bar and music club on Conant Street in the heart of Hamtramck. He's also the creator of the paczki bomb, a miniature paczki with an alcohol-infused filling.